George Osborne tonight claimed Gordon Brown’s government was “clearly
involved” in pressurising banks to manipulate their Libor rates, in the
strongest attempt yet by the Government to drag Labour into the banking
scandal.

Yesterday Barclays released a 2008 memo hinting that Bank of England deputy
governor Paul Tucker was being pressured by “senior” figures in Whitehall
about why Barclays was always towards the top end of Libor pricings.

In an interview for tomorrow’s edition of The Spectator, Mr
Osborne said that Labour ministers were implicated in the affair.“As for the
role of the Labour government and the people around Gordon